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Refusals of Care & Discrimination

A health care provider’s personal beliefs should never dictate health care – a patient’s health must always come first.

Discrimination in Health Care

For decades, insurance companies discriminated against women. They charged women more or denied coverage altogether. They didn’t cover women’s health services. The health care law stopped this discrimination. We must ensure the law’s promise is fulfilled.

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We Should Be More Like Sweden, Where Patient Health Care May Actually Come First

Victory in Sex Discrimination Complaints Brought by NWLC: After Investigation by HHS, Employers Change Policies

The Russell Amendment Allows Unprecedented Discrimination

Discrimination Has a Name – the Russell Amendment

Ensuring Women’s Access to Birth Control at Pharmacies isn’t Blocked by Objecting Pharmacists

Zubik v. Burwell: Non-Profit Objecting Employers Want to Make It More Difficult, If Not Impossible, for Women to Access Critical Birth Control Coverage

The Hobby Lobby “Minefield”: The Harm, Misuse, and Expansion of the Supreme Court Decision

NWLC Amicus Briefs Supporting the Birth Control Coverage Benefit

NWLC Files Amicus Brief in Wheaton College v. Burwell

NWLC Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief Supporting the Birth Control Coverage Benefit

Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Complaint January 2011

Letter to Secretary Leavitt from the American Medical Association Re: Proposed Rule on Conscience Regulations